BRACKNELL Ice Skating Club has won its second medal of the season in an inter-club competition.

BRACKNELL Ice Skating Club has won its second medal of the season in an inter-club competition.

The event was the annual Hot Ice artistic competition for clubs that had taken part earlier in the year in the Southern League for free skaters up to silver test level.

This year's league, which attracted six clubs, was won by Alexandra Palace with Gosport second and Bracknell third.

However only five took part in the Hot Ice event at Streatham on Sunday where once again Alexandra Palace topped the results' table but this time with Bracknell in second place.

Bracknell was represented in the solo girls' event by Carolyn Pakuls, 13, who gained second place for her Ugly Duckling routine.

The club came third in the small group class in which it was represented by Carolyn, Jenny Robinson, 12, and Leah Rogers, 14, who have all passed their inter-silver tests and performed a suitably spooky version of the Monster Mash.

Unfortunately, for a number of reasons, the only boy available to represent Bracknell in the boys' solo class was seven-year-old Lee Duckworth who has not even taken his novice test.

Totally outclassed and skating against competitors twice his age, he did his best and, although his Thunderbirds programme was placed last, he gained a valuable point for the club.

And Bracknell won the competition for the best banner, a competition unique to the Southern League.